Clarion 1964-05-20 Vol 40 No 26

Sorley
Culver
College Valedictorian Seminary Valedictorian
Sorley, Culver Receive
Commencement Honors
C etheite Learning Resource Centet the
Volume XL—No. 26
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Amended Honor System
Passes Student Senate
(photo by Berge)
Congratulations! Dean Muck awards Spire co-editors Minda Pear-son
and Carole Lundquist with bookends for a fine job on the 1963-64
yearbook. Other recognition given at the awards convocation included
silver and gold pins, keys, letters and blankets for excellence in
sports, music, publications, student government and Christian activities.
Five graduating seniors will be
awarded highest honors for the col-lege
and seminary at this week-end's
commencement.
Highest award in the college
goes to Robert Sorley, valedictor-ian
of the 1964 senior class. Sorley
has served this year as student sen-ate
president. Future plans for
next year include attending Bethel
seminary, with the mission field as
an ultimate goal.
Graduating from Bethel semin-ary
with a Bachelor of Divinity
degree is valedictorian Douglas
Culver. Culver is currently teach-ing
at Trinity college in Chicago,
Ill.
Sharing the honor of salutatorian
of the college are Bryce Krohn and
Irving Stauffer. Krohn plans to
teach high school mathematics in
Denver, Colo. Stauffer plans to
teach mathematics at the junior
high school level at North St. Paul
ripyt fall. His future plans also
include Bethel seminary.
Salutatorian of the seminary this
year is Glenn Plase who will as-sume
the pastorate at the West
Mifflin Community Baptist church
in Dravosburg, Pa.
Also receiving honors is sem-inary
senate president, Paul
Evan. Evan began his min-istry
on Easter Sunday at the
First Baptist church at Forest
City, la.
Five other college students gra-duate
this year with honors for
their outstanding academic schol-arship.
Dean Dahlquist plans to do gra-duate
work in English and journal-
Carter Presides
Over1964SNEA
Recently elected officers of next
year's Student National Education
association are Bill Carter, presi-dent;
Betty Newbury, vice-presi-dent;
Barbara Grounds, secretary;
Gail Nilsen, treasurer.
Concerned about the lack of
activity in SNEA in former years,
Carter said "With over 200 stu-dents
in education at Bethel, we
expect to have an active organiza-tion
next year."
"B" CLUB SELLS CANDY
A Herculean task is about to
tap us of all the adrenalin and
intestinal fortitude that we can
muster up. You guessed it! Final
exams.
In light of this energy sucking
meditation "B" club will be sell-ing
energy rebuilding 10c candy
bars at a slashed price of 5c a
bar. This noble deed will be ac-complished
tomorrow and Friday
at the coffee shop meeting table
during "B" club's annual left-over
sale.
ism at the University of Minnesota.
Jared Dorn, history major, will al-so
continue his educational train-ing
in graduate work at the Uni-versity
of Illinois.
Robert Larson plans to enter
Naval officers training next fall.
Carole Lundquist will return to
Bethel next semester to obtain her
certificate for secondary teaching
in the field of English. Traveling
in Europe will occupy Miss Lund-quist's
time during second semes-ter.
Donald Wright, now at Fuller
Theological seminary, has plans for
work in the mission field.
Graduation festivities this week•
end include an honors convocation,
a music festival and alumni, par-ent
and graduate activities.
Initiating the weekend's activi-ties
will be an honors convocation
Friday at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse
that will feature special music by
the concert band and women's
choir.
At 8 p.m. the festival choir
will present Alfred Gaul's can-tata,
"The Holy City," with guest
harpist and student soloists.
Saturday afternoon Nels Stjern-strom
will address alumni and par-ents
concerning the "New Bethel."
Immediately following a short cof-fee
break, a bus will leave for a
tour of the new campus site.
With Dr. C. Emanuel Carlson
speaking, the annual Bethel alumni
banquet will be held Saturday in
the fieldhouse, beginning at 6:30
p.m.
Dr. Carlson, executive director
of the Baptist Joint Committee
on Public Affairs, will speak on
the topic "Religious Liberty in
the Public Arena." He held the
position of dean at Bethel from
1945 to 1953 while serving as
Board Honors
Larson, Omark
Edwin J. Omark, dean of the
seminary and Miss Edith Larson,
office manager at Bethel, will be
recognized with a presentation
from the board of education at the
commencement service on Sunday.
Both are retiring after many years
of service at Bethel.
Dean Omark, also professor of
practical theology, began his min-istry
in the seminary in 1944, be-coming
dean of the seminary in
1948. Upon his retirement from
Bethel he will continue to be ac-tive
in the gospel ministry.
Miss Larson began her service
at Bethel in 1922, and has filled
various positions in the office since
then.
Student senate amended the pro-posed
honor system last Thursday
evening. The student body will vote
on the honor system as amended
tomorrow and Friday in the stu-dent
lounge from 10:35 a.m. to 4
p.m
After discussion between sena-tors
and the few non-senators who
attended the meeting, the senate
voted to make major changes "to
bring more of the spirit of honor
to the system."
One change is a safeguard
against institution of new re-strictions
by the administration.
It states that the standards to be
enforced by the honor board are
those set up by the administra-tion
in the "current catalogue."
The original proposal made any
"special standards set up by the
administration" enforceable by
the board.
Another change does away with
the 24 and 48 hour limits for re-porting
a violation and it sets up
professor of history and political
science and department chair-man.
In 1954 Carlson assumed his pre-sent
position, where he represents
seven Baptist groups. He has been
quoted recently in Christian Cen-tury
on his stand concerning the
Becker amendment and it is ex-pected
that his address will in-clude
comments on this current
issue before Congress.
Introduced by master of cere-monies
Walfred Peterson, the pro-gram
will include: Paul Goodman
with a monologue on the "Cookie
Story," and a "College Bowl" con-test
between a team of this year's
graduates and a team composed of
alumni of other years.
The contest, which is in keep-ing
with this year's theme "The
Informed Alumnus," will be
moderated by Gerald Healy and
is designed to "test the caliber
of Bethel's grads."
Classes being honored this year
are: class of '14, class of '39 and
class of '61. Also, the class of '64
safeguards to protect the violator
from being "needlessly brought be-fore
the honor board," stated Bob
Beckstrom, one of the proposers of
the amendment.
Under the new honor system a
violator is expected to report his
own violation to the authority im-mediately
above him whether it
be a faculty member, dormitory
council, student senate or honor
board. If the violator does not re-port
himself to one of these bod-ies,
he should seek assistance from
the dean of students.
Anyone observing a violation
is expected to first approach the
violator calling attention to his
violation and make recommenda-tions
for correction. He is also
expected to go to the dean of
students for counsel after talk-ing
with the violator. Then he
has the option to report the vio-lation
to the proper authorities.
The dean of students is a "neu-tral"
person whose sole responsi-will
be officially welcomed into the
alumni association.
Although the deadline for ticket
reservation was last Friday, tickets
may still be available at the alumni
office.
A Sunday breakfast will be
served in Bodien dining hall for
parents of 1964 college and sem-inary
graduates. Investiture
ceremony in the seminary chapel
will take place at 10 a.m.
Baccalaureate service is sched-uled
for 11 a.m. in the fieldhouse
with speaker Rev. Truman Halvor-sen,
executive secretary, Middle
East Baptist conference. Special
music will be provided by the col-lege
choir.
Concert band will present a pre-lude
to the commencement service
which begins at 3 p.m. Dr. Carl
Lundquist will speak, commemorat-ing
his tenth year as president of
Bethel college. The male chorus
will provide special music.
A reception on the campus lawn
follows the service at 4:30.
bilities are not disciplinary but ad-visory.
His object is to restore a
violator's honor. He cannot serve
on the honor board nor can he
bring charges before it. No viola-tions
brought before the dean will
become a part of a student's per-manent
record.
Under the amendment the honor
system will become effective for a
provisionary period of two years
following ratification by a major-ity
of student votes cast tomorrow
and Friday, by a two-thirds vote of
the faculty and by authorization of
the administration.
Discussion about these changes
centered around the need for
having the dean of students in-volved.
David Mbiti expressed
the feeling that "having the dean
in the middle is unnecessary."
Others answered saying that the
dean would protect violators
from "ruined records over little
things."
Steve Starr and Aggrey Brown
contended that the system does not
allow enough freedom because it
makes no provision for unproc-tored
exams, more dormitory free-dom
and free use of all library
materials. Several countered this
with the idea that the honor sys-tem
could evolve to include these
freedoms "after we prove that we
can be trusted."
After the senate passed the
amendments to the honor system,
informal discussion continued
showing that many who had for-merly
opposed the honor system
now found it acceptable.
Job Applications
Await Students
Seeking Funds
For the school year of 1964-1965
95 jobs await industrious Bethel,
students seeking employment on
campus. Those who have worked
previously and have performed sat-isfactorily
will be given prefer-ence.
Remaining jobs vacated by gra-duates
and students not returning
will be filled by incoming fresh-men
or by students submitting ap-plications.
Applications for interested stu.
dents are available in the student
services office. Students who are
presently working and wish to
work next year are reminded that
they must file an application as
well as those seeking first-time em,
ployment.
Decisions on personnel will be
made in July. Notification of em-ployment
will then be mailed to
those chosen.
Regarding summer employment
on the new campus: official,
groundbreaking is Sunday, June 21.
Construction begins July 1 instead
of June 1 as previously planned,
due to lack of funds to secure con-struction
costs.
Since common labor will not be
needed until the latter part of July
or early August, students will not
be hired for summer construction
work.
Graduation Festivities Feature
Speakers Carlson, Halvorsen
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the CLARION Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Students Need Resolve
To Live Worthy of Trust
Amendments to the honor system seem to have stilled the
fears of many who opposed it in its original form. Working
with several who had opposed it, the honor system originators
struck out some sections and added others to mold it according
to the desires of the campus.
The 24 and 48 hour reporting clause is gone, so jokes
about this legalistic rule are no longer apropo. The possibility
that students will be hauled and humiliated before the honor
board for petty offenses that may only be offenses in the eyes
of an observer is now remote with the purely counseling position
of the dean of students placed between the students and the
honor board.
Guarding against the sudden imposition of new "special
administrative standards," the honor system now states that
the standards are those stated in the current catalogue. And
to keep the system from becoming burdensome, the amendment
makes the system provisionary, requiring student approval at
the end of two years for its continuance.
Now that the system has been changed to fit the ideas of
more students, more of us will probably vote for it. But
we must understand that a vote for the honor system means
more than approval of a good system. It means that we have
looked at our lives, recognized how honorable we have or have
not been and decided that we desire to live honorable lives
worthy of the trust that the honor system places in each of us.
Letter:
Olsen Sees Dangers
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Letters to the Editor:
Fair Thinks Humor Suggestive
campus we have disregarded the
only possible solution, the person
of Jesus Christ living in each of
us as individuals.
Although I do not smoke, drink,
cheat or plagiarize, before Christ
I am miserable and wretched be-cause
of the things I have omitted
as well as committed.
Our campus does not need an
honor system. It needs spiritual
renewal beginning within my own
life.
Sincerely,
Milton C. Olsen
western university has undertaken
to rectify this injustice and to help
the members of the Carroll family.
With a knowledge that the col-lege
students of today are con-cerned
not just with social
thought but also with social ac-tion,
letters have been sent to
every American college and uni-versity,
urging the participation
of each individual student.
With graduation less than a week
away, we ask for your immediate
To the Editor:
The proposed honor system has
already been of benefit on our
campus, for it has turned our
thinking to the real area of need,
our own personal lives.
It is a dangerous proposal, how-ever,
for two main reasons: 1) It
tends to create a sense of false
security within the lives of those
whose behavior is "honorable"; and
2) it turns our critical eyes from
our own selves to the lives of
others.
In our concern over the needs of
honor and brotherly love on our
At 1:40 a.m., February 9, 1963,
Mrs. Hattie Carroll, a 51-year-old
negro barmaid, was struck by a
cane from the hands of William
Zantzinger. That same morning,
Mrs. Carroll died of a brain hem-orrhage,
leaving nine children.
After assaulting two other peo-ple
earlier in the evening, Zant-zinger
attacked Hattie Carroll, a
maid at a Baltimore post-debutante
ball. The New York Times reported
that "he demanded a drink from
Mrs. Carroll. She replied, 'Just a
minute, sir.' He then said, 'I don't
have to take that kind of stuff of
a nigger,' " and beat her with his
cane. .
"His blow with the cane, com-bined
with his words 'nigger'
and 'black bitch', caused an emo-tional
reaction in the 51-year-old
woman which brought on a fatal
brain hemorrhage."
William Devereaux Zantzinger, a
24-year-old prosperous tobacco far-mer
from southern Maryland, was
brought to trial on June 19, 1963.
As a person of wealth with rela-tions
in the politics of Maryland,
he was able to command the ser-vices
of five top-flight attorneys.
Zantzinger was found guilty of
a charge reduced from first degree
murder to manslaughter, which
carries with it a maximum sentence
of ten years, but as Time Magazine
reports, "For the death of Hattie
Carroll: six months in jail and a
fine of $500."
Public indignation has been
expressed through the mass me-dia,
and people have wondered
about justice and foresaken chil-dren.
But wonderment is not
enough!
With dismay at public inaction,
a group of students from North-
To All-School banquet committee
and editor:
As a new member of the sopho-more
class, it was my privilege to
attend this year, for the first time,
the "All-School banquet" held this
year at the Prom. I commend you
and your committee for the excel-lent
way in which arrangements
were handled.
There were, however, some dis-turbing
elements that I feel need
some definite considerations in the
plans for like events in the coming
years. The first was the moral
tenor of the entertainment provid-ed
by the Mel-o-Dons.
I refer not to the barber shop
style, nor to some of the pieces
sung. I enjoy, for a diversion,
this type of musical contribution.
I was greatly disappointed in the
suggestiveness of two of their
numbers—specifically the M.C.'s
reference to the method of relief
of a woman's discomforts and
also the implied reason for the
odor of lutefisk.
Others also could be mentioned.
Is this the trend in choice of en-tertainment
for student-faculty ac-tivities
or was this an oversight
on the part of the committee in
not briefing the musical group ade-quately?
I hope it has been as a
result of my second suggestion.
As I sat in semi-embarrassment
and later reflected on the events
of the evening, Paul's exhortation
to the Roman church took on new
meaning. "Don't let the world a-round
you squeeze you into its own
mould, but let God re-mould your
minds from within . . ."
The second concern that arose
in my mind, was the conspicuous
response. Any funds you might
wish to give, send to the Hattie
Carroll Memorial fund, State Bank
and Trust company, Evanston, Ill.
Editor's Note : This is printed
at the request of the Hattie Car-roll
Memorial Trust fund co-ordinating
committee : Mike
Braunstein, John Holcomb and
Richard Bouten.
absence, in the recollection of
"the year that was," of any sig-nificant
impact upon the lives of
any students in the realm of the
spiritual. Is this not important?
If there has been no spiritual
impact greater than that mention-ed,
Bethel has failed God and its
constituency. What could have
been better than to have closed
the evening with a brief, positive
challenge to the students and fac-ulty
to reconsider the past, and
consider the future in the light of
God's great eternal plan for each
one!
In the light of Bethel's Chris-tian
heritage, this does not seem
to me to be out of place. Such
considerations might also help to
fill some of the vacant spots in
our seminary student enrollment.
Lest I leave the impression that
I was dissatisfied with the entire
evening let me say in closing that
I appreciated the fellowship with
students and faculty and hope to
be present again next year. How,
ever, I also trust that the program
committee will take in serious con-sideration
the above mentioned as
pects of the "All-School banquet."
In sincere Christian fellowship ;
Lester Fair
Two Oppose Prom
Dear Editor:
First we would like to say that a
Bethel college banquet does NOT
belong in a dance hall. We realize
that space is a problem to be faced
but we're sure other places could
have been found.
Secondly, while the Mel-o-Dons
are fine singers and the rest of
their entertainment fits into the
surroundings of a dance hall, we
feel that a secular group such as
that creates a problem at a Bethel
banquet.
For the seniors and many other
students the All-College is the last
big event that will be remembered
by these departing friends. A ban-quet
at Bethel which features a
secular group runs a risk at Bethel
of not being of the quality we de-sire
as a Christian community.
In our opinion this year's ban-quet
leaves much to be desired in
leaving a lasting, good impression
of Bethel college.
Can you imagine the thoughts of
the non-Christian world if they had
seen "Welcome Bethel" on the
marquee of the Prom center?
If the honor system had been in
vogue we could have brought the
committee before the board in vio-lation
of the standards which
Bethel stands for.
Respectfully submitted,
Stan Miller
Bruce D. Erickson
Planners Reply
To Criticisms
Dear Editor:
The letters regarding the All-
College banquet were very much
appreciated. It's rather refreshing
to find those who will take the
initiative to express their concern
for the spiritual direction of the
school.
Indeed, space and facilities were
a determining factor in choosing a
suitable place for the banquet. And
the Prom center was an answer to
this problem. The Prom is known
as a banquet catering service and
prefers to be called such.
Their service was very good.
The food was good and we had
more than enough room. The
committee feels that the Prom
was as suitable as a hotel, per-haps
even more so for we were
not involved with other groups
as is often the case in a hotel
situation.
The musical group was well-in-formed
about Bethel, both by let-ter
and a fifteen minute interview
just prior to their performance.
The committee assumed that the
Mel-o-Dons' interpretation of jokes
appropriate to this type of occasion
would coincide with our Christian
concept of suitable humor. Per-haps
a few of these jokes were
more inappropriate than we had
wished, but we do not consider
them "suggestive".
This is not the trend in stu-dent-
faculty activities; the quar-tet
was procurred with the inten-tion
of providing an enjoyable
interlude of music between the
meal and the review of the past
year.
We did not ask that they fit into
the Christian "mould" nor do we
feel that Bethel had to fit into
their "mould" to appreciate their
entertainment. We feel that the
difference in spiritual backgrounds
need not have hindered our enjoy-ment
of the musical interlude,
which was the sole purpose of
their presence.
With respect to the concern
over the absence of spiritual
pact in the review, we feel that
the spirituality of the year is a
continuous, underlying factor and,
was emphasized in testimonies by
Dr. Junet Runbeck, Elvin Malcolm,
Eddie Carlson and Dr. Carl Lund;
quist, to mention a few.
It was not intended that the
spiritual be separated from the
social, academic and athletic. As
Christians, should not the spirit-ual
be a basic, unifying factor in
all activities? This is the Bethel
heritage.
In conclusion, we consider Presi-dent
Lundquist's closing remarks
and prayer a very fitting "brief,
positive challenge to the students
and faculty . . ." This was our de-sire,
as it was yours and we feel
it was adequately handled.
Again, thank you for your con-cern.
All-school banquet committee
elit• Week . .
Thursday, May 21 - Friday, May 22
SENIOR EXAMS
Friday, May 22
Honors convocation. 10 a.m. Fieldhouse.
Commencement music festival. 8 p.m.
Fieldhouse.
Saturday, May 23
Baseball. 10:30 a.m. Martin Luther.
Alumni-parent conference. 2:15 p.m. Col-lege
auditorium.
Alumni banquet. 6:30 p.m. Fieldhouse.
Sunday, May 24
Graduate-parent breakfast. 8 a.m. Bodien
dining hall.
Seminary investiture ceremony. 10 a.m.
Seminary chapel.
Baccalaureate. 11 a.m. Fieldhouse.
Commencement. 3 p.m. Fieldhouse.
Reception. 4:30 p.m. Lawn.
Monday, May 25 - Friday, May 29
FINALS WEEK.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 26
Editor-in-Chief June Erickson
Associate Editor Bill Swenson
News Editor J. David Patterson
Feature Editor Barbara Rusche
Sports Editor Mike Rynkiewich
Copy Editor Pat Jaynes
Photo Editor Debbie Peterson
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager Bonnie Carlson
Typing Manager Jim Redford
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Northwestern Sponsors Fund
For Hattie Carroll's Children
(photo by Johnson)
Arts meet as band members receive their COEVALS after perform-ing
their spring concert. There were 162 people in the audience. Stu-dents
in the band, plus the usherettes, outnumbered the audience. Three
faculty members were there and one college administrator attended,
It was a fine concert.
Mbiti Reminisces, Finds
Atmosphere Challenging
Let's say for a minute, this is you.
years have been preparing you for. You've
got ability and a good education. Now's the
time to put them to work!
You'll have every opportunity to prove your
talents in the Air Force. By doing so, you can
put yourself and your country ahead.
If you're not already enrolled in ROTC,
you can earn your commission at Air
Force Officer Training School—a three-month
course that's open to both men
and women college graduates. To apply,
But when you come right down you must be within 210 days
o it, that's what your college U.S. Air Force of graduation.
Once you wear the gold bars of a second
lieutenant in the United States Air Force,
what's in store for you?
Well, you may fly an aircraft entrusted with a
vital defense mission. Or you may lead a
research team tackling problems on the fron-tier
of knowledge. You'll be helping to run an
organization that's essential to the safety of
the free world.
Sounds like you'll be called on to shoulder a
good deal of responsibility, doesn't it?
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
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Morning Services 9 & 11
Church Bible School 10
Young Peoples class taught by Dr. Anton
Pearson, studying Book of Isaiah.
Pro Bu Cols 5:30
(Professional, Business, College)
Evening Service 7:15
Pastor Magnuson
Bus Leaves Bodien 9:40 a.m., 5:10 p.m.
Minister of Music, Bruce Leafblad
e4eivaleir Baptist C‘wielt
5501 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis
Sunday School 9:30 Morning Service 10:45
C.Y.F. 5:45 Evening Service 7:00
Rev. Ellis Eklof, Jr., Pastor Roberta Yaxley, Dir. of Music
Compliments of . . .
Falcon Heights Pharmacy
1707 N. Snelling Ave.
MI 6-0609 St. Paul 13, Minn.
by David M. Mbiti
That the 1963-64 school year is
almost over is a fact which is hard
for me to believe. Time seems to
have gone faster this year than
in the previous years, though in
actual fact, it has not.
For me Bethel has been a place
where I have been kept busy in the
best and most constructive sense
of the word. At Bethel I have ap-propriated
the sense of belonging-ness,
not because of what I have
felt I could contribute to the col-lege
family, but because of what I
could and have gained from Bethel.
Indeed this has been a reward-ing
experience in every realm of
my being. On the academic side,
Bethel, as a Christian college
provides ample room for critical,
independent and reflective think-ing
which I feel is an important
tool for Christian maturity, if
done in a constructive manner,
of course.
I have personally benefited
greatly not only from classroom
situations but also from informal
discussions, either with professors
or with fellow students. This is a
practice which is almost traditional
at Bethel and more of which I wish
to see next year.
Socially, and for the first time
in my four years of study in A-merica,
I have enjoyed mixing with
the entire college family without
any repulsive feelings either with-in
me or within the group.
Spiritually, I have obtained
blessings which are beyond mea-sure
from the many chapel
speakers we have had in the year
and especially our school presi-dent.
Oh how I wish he could do
more chapel speaking!
I do thank the Lord for Bethel
and for her contribution in the
contemporary world.
Thanks Students!
Have a good summer
Two Dollar Bills
for your
old books.
Bethel Boo104104e
by Phil Larson
Plato was right. If you let the
majority make the decisions,
chances are they'll botch things up.
Bethel's student body proves this
at virtually every on-campus con-cert.
The majority decides that the
event is not worth attending, thus
displaying their obvious inability to
make right choices for themselves,
Fie on all you cultural barbarians
who didn't attend the band concert
last Saturday night!
This year's band probably has
more competent musicians hold-ing
down first and second chairs
than any previous year at Bethel.
As a result, Friday night's per-formances
produced a minimum
of clarinet screeches, saxaphone
glissandos, trumpet blops or
trombone fuzz.
Its sound was generally brilliant
and full, with only occasional sur-face
noises and sags in pitch from
the woodwinds. Vivian Walker,
trombone and Tim Olson, bari-tone,
led the band's most orches-tral-
sounding selections.
Charles Erickson's direction help-ed
the band to achieve coherence
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
and drive in several stadium-stomping
marches and in a con-temporary
"Concerto Grosso" by
J. J. Morrissey.
In the latter, the performance
of David Wedeking, Kermit
Grenz and Miss Walker probably
exceeded the musicianship of
the manuscript in the various
brass fanfares and interpolated
solo passages.
V. F. Safranek's "Atlantis" was
simple, optimistic and unpreten-tious.
Wedeking and Olson's long
solo lines were appropriately fluid
and relaxed. Even though the con-tinent
"Atlantis" sank into the sea
during the last movement, the
feeling remained as the composer
intended: bombastic, yet playful,
like a clumsy but happy giant
stumbling over the hills.
Peter Mennin's showpiece, "Can-zona,"
was the only genuinely con-temporary
number of the evening.
Despite a few disjunct and scat-tered
attacks, the band superceded
their practice performances in
charging through a spectacular
piece with the best interpretation
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heard from an amateur wind en-semble.
Kermit Grenz was stormed
with flattery after the concert
for his direction of the first
movement of Schubert's "Unfin-ished
Symphony." Grenz gave
the band an energetic and easy-to-
follow beat, resulting in a
solid and highly unified sound.
Eminent philosopher-king Gerald,
Healy waxed eloquent as emcee
with Tennyson's "Ulysses," and
brought tears of profound ectasy
with a poem by the beloved Dr.
Suess.
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mike
by Mike Rynkiewich
Thus ends another year of sports at Bethel. There are still two
baseball games to be played, but cross country, football, basketball,
wrestling, tennis, golf and track are over for the year 1963-64.
The Pioneer conference's first year has been dominated by Bethel
teams. In the fall Royals took the conference football championship with
a 2-0 conference record and a 6-2 season record. Winter brought basket-ball
and wrestling.
A 5-1 conference record gave the hoopers the title. In wrestling,
Morris took first, Bethel second. Then came spring and a conference
championship in track. Tennis took a second place and golf a third. The
baseball team will likely take another conference championship.
The year has seen more improvement and the best results of any
year in Bethel's history. Yet, this is not a peak year in sports. The
football team loses six seniors, basketball loses two, track one and
baseball and wrestling none. This is not a great loss. This was a building
year.
Our expanding athletic program and winning seasons are drawing
higher caliber high school athletes to Bethel. Competition for starting
positions on the teams will get tougher resulting in stronger teams.
Considering the great number of returning lettermen and the goad crop
of high school athletes which is expected, next year's seasons should
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as the relay team half lapped the next closest team to earn for the
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Golfers Finish
Season Third
by Rich Lawrence
Royal golfers traveled to Austin,
Tuesday, where they participated
in a three-way meet with Austin
and Mason City of Iowa. Faced
with real tough competition, they
took third place.
Austin finished in front with
a comfortable margin and
Mason City topped Bethel by a
narrow margin. The five golfers
playing were Dean Gustafson,
Lindy Nelson, Jerry Oas, Phil Lin-den
and Dave Palermo.
Saturday the Royals competed in
the Pioneer conference meet. The
University of Minnesota, Morris,
triumphed, followed by Northland,
Bethel and Northwestern. Gustaf-son,
Bill Carlson, Linden and Gene
Weborg made up the Bethel four-some.
They whipped Concordia again
in a dual meet before losing the
triangular meet at Austin, ending
the season in third place in the
conference standings.
by Ron Harris
At the Pioneer conference track
meet Saturday Bethel emerged the
victor with an outstanding point
total of 1091/2. Northland followed
with 46 points, Morris and North-western
in succession.
Twelve first places were copped
by Bethel as Fred Purcell, Bob
MacDonald and Jim Peterson cap-tured
double wins.
Purcell ran away with the mile
with a time of 4:40.2 and came
back later to capture the 880
with a time of 2:04.6. Dave Nor-man
and Dale Rogers, backed up
Purcell in the mile, took second
and third respectively. Norman
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
and Edgar Peterman mopped up
second and third in the 880.
MacDonald won the hop-step-jump
with a leap of 39' 6 3A" as
Peterman and Ron Bergman once
again swept the remaining places.
MacDonald also won the broad
jump with a jump of 20' 1 1/2" as
Peterman and Tim Williams took
second and third respectively.
Peterson clicked off the 440 in
a fast time of 51.8. Williams took
second. Peterson also clipped the
clock at 23 seconds flat to with the
220 dash. Don Land placed fourth.
Williams, who has shown re-markable
improvement this year,
copped the high jump with a re-cord
leap of 5' 10". This is the
third time Williams has broken
his own school record. He later
came back to break his own re-cord
in the 330 yd. hurdles while
placing second. Rich Lawrence
and Dave Bjorklund placed third
and fourth.
In the pole vault, Bergman was
again the victor, this time eclipsing
his own school record of 11' 8" by
vaulting 12' 1/2". Bjorklund placed
third with a vault of 10' 6" and
Peterman fourth with 10' 3".
Jack Buss and Stan Miller took
first and second in the shot put
with heaves of 40' 11 1/2" and 39'
61/2". Buss also took third in the
discus with a whirl of 109'.
Lawrence and Land placed
third and fourth in the 100 yd.
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dash with times of 10.6 and 10.9.
The two mile run was won by
Rogers in 10:34.6 minutes as
Peterman and Mike Rynkiewich
took second and fourth.
Completing the day's events were
the victories in the mile relay and
sprint medley relay. The mile team
composed of Williams, Land, Law-rence
and Peterson broke the tape
at 3:41.6. Purcell, MacDonald,
Bjorklund and Norman combined
in the sprint medley for an easy
3:52.1 win.
by Denny Port
Bethel moved near its fourth
Pioneer conference title with three
victories in four baseball outings
last week. On Wednesday the Roy-als
were away at Austin where
they split a twin bill. On Saturday
Bethel faced Bethany at home and
won a pair.
In Wednesday's first game Bethel
was shut out for the first time this
season, as Jerry Moulton lost a
tough 3-hitter, 2-0. Only captain
Dave Buck and Gene Brunzell got
base hits for Bethel; Buck a double
in the sixth and Brunzell a single
in the seventh. Austin scored the
only run needed in the first on
two hits.
On Saturday Bethel matched
an earlier feat by whipping Beth-
Ron Bergman breaks his own
old record in the pole vault. When.
freshman Bergman came the re-cord
was 10'5". After breaking his
record several times, he went 12'
1/2" in the conference meet. Edgar
Peterman and Dave Bjorklund also
placed in this event.
any Jr. college in a twin bill at
Macalester's north field. The
first game was a sparkling 2-
hitter by sophomore Moulton.
Bethel, known for the big inning
all season, came up with 5 runs in
the first inning of the second en-counter.
Dickau's single and Brun-zell's
double were the only Bethel
hits, but Austin, Nolin and John-son
all reached base on Bethany
errors and Gehrke walked.
In the second after Austin sin-gled,
Dickau flew out, but Buck
reached first on an error. Gehrke
flew out, for what should have
been the third out and Brunzell
singled in Austin and Buck. Aus-tin
went the distance for the
Royals with a fine 5-hit perform-ance.
Austin and Brunzell led
Bethel with two hits each.
The victories gave Bethel a 12-2
league leading record with one
week of action remaining. Dickau
leads Bethel hitters in the league
with a .357 average. Austin is close
behind at .341.
Royals Capture
Doubles Laurels
Gene Peterson and Oluf Kong-shaug
teamed up to capture the
doubles championship and lead the
Royals to a second place finish in
the Pioneer conference tennis
tournament.
Ed Carlson lost his opening
match 6-2, 6-0 to John Blasingame
of the University of Minnesota,
Morris. Blasingame went on to win
the singles championship.
George Palke lost his opening
match 6-4, 8-6 to Rick Erickson of
Morris. Palke whipped Carlson
8-6, 8-6 in the finals of consolation
singles play.
Morris captured the Pioneer con-ference
tournament with 25 points.
Bethel finished second with 16 fol-lowed
by Northland with 15 points
and Northwestern with 2 points.
Last Wednesday the Royals suf-fered
their second straight loss as
Austin handed them a 6-3 defeat.
Peterson, who extended his singles
victories to seven straight and Paul
Wicklund were the only singles
victories while Kongshaug and
Roger Kingsley won the only dou-bles
match.
Bethel finished the 1964 season
with a 4-3 record. With captain Ed
Carlson the only graduating net-man,
the Royals can look forward
to a promising 1965 season.
Trackmen Sweep Conference,
Garner Twelve First Places
Royals Tumble Bethany,
Later Split With Austin

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College Valedictorian Seminary Valedictorian
Sorley, Culver Receive
Commencement Honors
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Volume XL—No. 26
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Amended Honor System
Passes Student Senate
(photo by Berge)
Congratulations! Dean Muck awards Spire co-editors Minda Pear-son
and Carole Lundquist with bookends for a fine job on the 1963-64
yearbook. Other recognition given at the awards convocation included
silver and gold pins, keys, letters and blankets for excellence in
sports, music, publications, student government and Christian activities.
Five graduating seniors will be
awarded highest honors for the col-lege
and seminary at this week-end's
commencement.
Highest award in the college
goes to Robert Sorley, valedictor-ian
of the 1964 senior class. Sorley
has served this year as student sen-ate
president. Future plans for
next year include attending Bethel
seminary, with the mission field as
an ultimate goal.
Graduating from Bethel semin-ary
with a Bachelor of Divinity
degree is valedictorian Douglas
Culver. Culver is currently teach-ing
at Trinity college in Chicago,
Ill.
Sharing the honor of salutatorian
of the college are Bryce Krohn and
Irving Stauffer. Krohn plans to
teach high school mathematics in
Denver, Colo. Stauffer plans to
teach mathematics at the junior
high school level at North St. Paul
ripyt fall. His future plans also
include Bethel seminary.
Salutatorian of the seminary this
year is Glenn Plase who will as-sume
the pastorate at the West
Mifflin Community Baptist church
in Dravosburg, Pa.
Also receiving honors is sem-inary
senate president, Paul
Evan. Evan began his min-istry
on Easter Sunday at the
First Baptist church at Forest
City, la.
Five other college students gra-duate
this year with honors for
their outstanding academic schol-arship.
Dean Dahlquist plans to do gra-duate
work in English and journal-
Carter Presides
Over1964SNEA
Recently elected officers of next
year's Student National Education
association are Bill Carter, presi-dent;
Betty Newbury, vice-presi-dent;
Barbara Grounds, secretary;
Gail Nilsen, treasurer.
Concerned about the lack of
activity in SNEA in former years,
Carter said "With over 200 stu-dents
in education at Bethel, we
expect to have an active organiza-tion
next year."
"B" CLUB SELLS CANDY
A Herculean task is about to
tap us of all the adrenalin and
intestinal fortitude that we can
muster up. You guessed it! Final
exams.
In light of this energy sucking
meditation "B" club will be sell-ing
energy rebuilding 10c candy
bars at a slashed price of 5c a
bar. This noble deed will be ac-complished
tomorrow and Friday
at the coffee shop meeting table
during "B" club's annual left-over
sale.
ism at the University of Minnesota.
Jared Dorn, history major, will al-so
continue his educational train-ing
in graduate work at the Uni-versity
of Illinois.
Robert Larson plans to enter
Naval officers training next fall.
Carole Lundquist will return to
Bethel next semester to obtain her
certificate for secondary teaching
in the field of English. Traveling
in Europe will occupy Miss Lund-quist's
time during second semes-ter.
Donald Wright, now at Fuller
Theological seminary, has plans for
work in the mission field.
Graduation festivities this week•
end include an honors convocation,
a music festival and alumni, par-ent
and graduate activities.
Initiating the weekend's activi-ties
will be an honors convocation
Friday at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse
that will feature special music by
the concert band and women's
choir.
At 8 p.m. the festival choir
will present Alfred Gaul's can-tata,
"The Holy City," with guest
harpist and student soloists.
Saturday afternoon Nels Stjern-strom
will address alumni and par-ents
concerning the "New Bethel."
Immediately following a short cof-fee
break, a bus will leave for a
tour of the new campus site.
With Dr. C. Emanuel Carlson
speaking, the annual Bethel alumni
banquet will be held Saturday in
the fieldhouse, beginning at 6:30
p.m.
Dr. Carlson, executive director
of the Baptist Joint Committee
on Public Affairs, will speak on
the topic "Religious Liberty in
the Public Arena." He held the
position of dean at Bethel from
1945 to 1953 while serving as
Board Honors
Larson, Omark
Edwin J. Omark, dean of the
seminary and Miss Edith Larson,
office manager at Bethel, will be
recognized with a presentation
from the board of education at the
commencement service on Sunday.
Both are retiring after many years
of service at Bethel.
Dean Omark, also professor of
practical theology, began his min-istry
in the seminary in 1944, be-coming
dean of the seminary in
1948. Upon his retirement from
Bethel he will continue to be ac-tive
in the gospel ministry.
Miss Larson began her service
at Bethel in 1922, and has filled
various positions in the office since
then.
Student senate amended the pro-posed
honor system last Thursday
evening. The student body will vote
on the honor system as amended
tomorrow and Friday in the stu-dent
lounge from 10:35 a.m. to 4
p.m
After discussion between sena-tors
and the few non-senators who
attended the meeting, the senate
voted to make major changes "to
bring more of the spirit of honor
to the system."
One change is a safeguard
against institution of new re-strictions
by the administration.
It states that the standards to be
enforced by the honor board are
those set up by the administra-tion
in the "current catalogue."
The original proposal made any
"special standards set up by the
administration" enforceable by
the board.
Another change does away with
the 24 and 48 hour limits for re-porting
a violation and it sets up
professor of history and political
science and department chair-man.
In 1954 Carlson assumed his pre-sent
position, where he represents
seven Baptist groups. He has been
quoted recently in Christian Cen-tury
on his stand concerning the
Becker amendment and it is ex-pected
that his address will in-clude
comments on this current
issue before Congress.
Introduced by master of cere-monies
Walfred Peterson, the pro-gram
will include: Paul Goodman
with a monologue on the "Cookie
Story," and a "College Bowl" con-test
between a team of this year's
graduates and a team composed of
alumni of other years.
The contest, which is in keep-ing
with this year's theme "The
Informed Alumnus," will be
moderated by Gerald Healy and
is designed to "test the caliber
of Bethel's grads."
Classes being honored this year
are: class of '14, class of '39 and
class of '61. Also, the class of '64
safeguards to protect the violator
from being "needlessly brought be-fore
the honor board," stated Bob
Beckstrom, one of the proposers of
the amendment.
Under the new honor system a
violator is expected to report his
own violation to the authority im-mediately
above him whether it
be a faculty member, dormitory
council, student senate or honor
board. If the violator does not re-port
himself to one of these bod-ies,
he should seek assistance from
the dean of students.
Anyone observing a violation
is expected to first approach the
violator calling attention to his
violation and make recommenda-tions
for correction. He is also
expected to go to the dean of
students for counsel after talk-ing
with the violator. Then he
has the option to report the vio-lation
to the proper authorities.
The dean of students is a "neu-tral"
person whose sole responsi-will
be officially welcomed into the
alumni association.
Although the deadline for ticket
reservation was last Friday, tickets
may still be available at the alumni
office.
A Sunday breakfast will be
served in Bodien dining hall for
parents of 1964 college and sem-inary
graduates. Investiture
ceremony in the seminary chapel
will take place at 10 a.m.
Baccalaureate service is sched-uled
for 11 a.m. in the fieldhouse
with speaker Rev. Truman Halvor-sen,
executive secretary, Middle
East Baptist conference. Special
music will be provided by the col-lege
choir.
Concert band will present a pre-lude
to the commencement service
which begins at 3 p.m. Dr. Carl
Lundquist will speak, commemorat-ing
his tenth year as president of
Bethel college. The male chorus
will provide special music.
A reception on the campus lawn
follows the service at 4:30.
bilities are not disciplinary but ad-visory.
His object is to restore a
violator's honor. He cannot serve
on the honor board nor can he
bring charges before it. No viola-tions
brought before the dean will
become a part of a student's per-manent
record.
Under the amendment the honor
system will become effective for a
provisionary period of two years
following ratification by a major-ity
of student votes cast tomorrow
and Friday, by a two-thirds vote of
the faculty and by authorization of
the administration.
Discussion about these changes
centered around the need for
having the dean of students in-volved.
David Mbiti expressed
the feeling that "having the dean
in the middle is unnecessary."
Others answered saying that the
dean would protect violators
from "ruined records over little
things."
Steve Starr and Aggrey Brown
contended that the system does not
allow enough freedom because it
makes no provision for unproc-tored
exams, more dormitory free-dom
and free use of all library
materials. Several countered this
with the idea that the honor sys-tem
could evolve to include these
freedoms "after we prove that we
can be trusted."
After the senate passed the
amendments to the honor system,
informal discussion continued
showing that many who had for-merly
opposed the honor system
now found it acceptable.
Job Applications
Await Students
Seeking Funds
For the school year of 1964-1965
95 jobs await industrious Bethel,
students seeking employment on
campus. Those who have worked
previously and have performed sat-isfactorily
will be given prefer-ence.
Remaining jobs vacated by gra-duates
and students not returning
will be filled by incoming fresh-men
or by students submitting ap-plications.
Applications for interested stu.
dents are available in the student
services office. Students who are
presently working and wish to
work next year are reminded that
they must file an application as
well as those seeking first-time em,
ployment.
Decisions on personnel will be
made in July. Notification of em-ployment
will then be mailed to
those chosen.
Regarding summer employment
on the new campus: official,
groundbreaking is Sunday, June 21.
Construction begins July 1 instead
of June 1 as previously planned,
due to lack of funds to secure con-struction
costs.
Since common labor will not be
needed until the latter part of July
or early August, students will not
be hired for summer construction
work.
Graduation Festivities Feature
Speakers Carlson, Halvorsen
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Students Need Resolve
To Live Worthy of Trust
Amendments to the honor system seem to have stilled the
fears of many who opposed it in its original form. Working
with several who had opposed it, the honor system originators
struck out some sections and added others to mold it according
to the desires of the campus.
The 24 and 48 hour reporting clause is gone, so jokes
about this legalistic rule are no longer apropo. The possibility
that students will be hauled and humiliated before the honor
board for petty offenses that may only be offenses in the eyes
of an observer is now remote with the purely counseling position
of the dean of students placed between the students and the
honor board.
Guarding against the sudden imposition of new "special
administrative standards," the honor system now states that
the standards are those stated in the current catalogue. And
to keep the system from becoming burdensome, the amendment
makes the system provisionary, requiring student approval at
the end of two years for its continuance.
Now that the system has been changed to fit the ideas of
more students, more of us will probably vote for it. But
we must understand that a vote for the honor system means
more than approval of a good system. It means that we have
looked at our lives, recognized how honorable we have or have
not been and decided that we desire to live honorable lives
worthy of the trust that the honor system places in each of us.
Letter:
Olsen Sees Dangers
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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111 AGREE THAT I 1710N i-1- aye YOU THE GRADE You PE5ERVE- ,
BUT WE HAVEN'T YET X1/4/15EP AN VALLJ.ATioN SYMBOL Lo5KT1441 111
Letters to the Editor:
Fair Thinks Humor Suggestive
campus we have disregarded the
only possible solution, the person
of Jesus Christ living in each of
us as individuals.
Although I do not smoke, drink,
cheat or plagiarize, before Christ
I am miserable and wretched be-cause
of the things I have omitted
as well as committed.
Our campus does not need an
honor system. It needs spiritual
renewal beginning within my own
life.
Sincerely,
Milton C. Olsen
western university has undertaken
to rectify this injustice and to help
the members of the Carroll family.
With a knowledge that the col-lege
students of today are con-cerned
not just with social
thought but also with social ac-tion,
letters have been sent to
every American college and uni-versity,
urging the participation
of each individual student.
With graduation less than a week
away, we ask for your immediate
To the Editor:
The proposed honor system has
already been of benefit on our
campus, for it has turned our
thinking to the real area of need,
our own personal lives.
It is a dangerous proposal, how-ever,
for two main reasons: 1) It
tends to create a sense of false
security within the lives of those
whose behavior is "honorable"; and
2) it turns our critical eyes from
our own selves to the lives of
others.
In our concern over the needs of
honor and brotherly love on our
At 1:40 a.m., February 9, 1963,
Mrs. Hattie Carroll, a 51-year-old
negro barmaid, was struck by a
cane from the hands of William
Zantzinger. That same morning,
Mrs. Carroll died of a brain hem-orrhage,
leaving nine children.
After assaulting two other peo-ple
earlier in the evening, Zant-zinger
attacked Hattie Carroll, a
maid at a Baltimore post-debutante
ball. The New York Times reported
that "he demanded a drink from
Mrs. Carroll. She replied, 'Just a
minute, sir.' He then said, 'I don't
have to take that kind of stuff of
a nigger,' " and beat her with his
cane. .
"His blow with the cane, com-bined
with his words 'nigger'
and 'black bitch', caused an emo-tional
reaction in the 51-year-old
woman which brought on a fatal
brain hemorrhage."
William Devereaux Zantzinger, a
24-year-old prosperous tobacco far-mer
from southern Maryland, was
brought to trial on June 19, 1963.
As a person of wealth with rela-tions
in the politics of Maryland,
he was able to command the ser-vices
of five top-flight attorneys.
Zantzinger was found guilty of
a charge reduced from first degree
murder to manslaughter, which
carries with it a maximum sentence
of ten years, but as Time Magazine
reports, "For the death of Hattie
Carroll: six months in jail and a
fine of $500."
Public indignation has been
expressed through the mass me-dia,
and people have wondered
about justice and foresaken chil-dren.
But wonderment is not
enough!
With dismay at public inaction,
a group of students from North-
To All-School banquet committee
and editor:
As a new member of the sopho-more
class, it was my privilege to
attend this year, for the first time,
the "All-School banquet" held this
year at the Prom. I commend you
and your committee for the excel-lent
way in which arrangements
were handled.
There were, however, some dis-turbing
elements that I feel need
some definite considerations in the
plans for like events in the coming
years. The first was the moral
tenor of the entertainment provid-ed
by the Mel-o-Dons.
I refer not to the barber shop
style, nor to some of the pieces
sung. I enjoy, for a diversion,
this type of musical contribution.
I was greatly disappointed in the
suggestiveness of two of their
numbers—specifically the M.C.'s
reference to the method of relief
of a woman's discomforts and
also the implied reason for the
odor of lutefisk.
Others also could be mentioned.
Is this the trend in choice of en-tertainment
for student-faculty ac-tivities
or was this an oversight
on the part of the committee in
not briefing the musical group ade-quately?
I hope it has been as a
result of my second suggestion.
As I sat in semi-embarrassment
and later reflected on the events
of the evening, Paul's exhortation
to the Roman church took on new
meaning. "Don't let the world a-round
you squeeze you into its own
mould, but let God re-mould your
minds from within . . ."
The second concern that arose
in my mind, was the conspicuous
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Editor's Note : This is printed
at the request of the Hattie Car-roll
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committee : Mike
Braunstein, John Holcomb and
Richard Bouten.
absence, in the recollection of
"the year that was," of any sig-nificant
impact upon the lives of
any students in the realm of the
spiritual. Is this not important?
If there has been no spiritual
impact greater than that mention-ed,
Bethel has failed God and its
constituency. What could have
been better than to have closed
the evening with a brief, positive
challenge to the students and fac-ulty
to reconsider the past, and
consider the future in the light of
God's great eternal plan for each
one!
In the light of Bethel's Chris-tian
heritage, this does not seem
to me to be out of place. Such
considerations might also help to
fill some of the vacant spots in
our seminary student enrollment.
Lest I leave the impression that
I was dissatisfied with the entire
evening let me say in closing that
I appreciated the fellowship with
students and faculty and hope to
be present again next year. How,
ever, I also trust that the program
committee will take in serious con-sideration
the above mentioned as
pects of the "All-School banquet."
In sincere Christian fellowship ;
Lester Fair
Two Oppose Prom
Dear Editor:
First we would like to say that a
Bethel college banquet does NOT
belong in a dance hall. We realize
that space is a problem to be faced
but we're sure other places could
have been found.
Secondly, while the Mel-o-Dons
are fine singers and the rest of
their entertainment fits into the
surroundings of a dance hall, we
feel that a secular group such as
that creates a problem at a Bethel
banquet.
For the seniors and many other
students the All-College is the last
big event that will be remembered
by these departing friends. A ban-quet
at Bethel which features a
secular group runs a risk at Bethel
of not being of the quality we de-sire
as a Christian community.
In our opinion this year's ban-quet
leaves much to be desired in
leaving a lasting, good impression
of Bethel college.
Can you imagine the thoughts of
the non-Christian world if they had
seen "Welcome Bethel" on the
marquee of the Prom center?
If the honor system had been in
vogue we could have brought the
committee before the board in vio-lation
of the standards which
Bethel stands for.
Respectfully submitted,
Stan Miller
Bruce D. Erickson
Planners Reply
To Criticisms
Dear Editor:
The letters regarding the All-
College banquet were very much
appreciated. It's rather refreshing
to find those who will take the
initiative to express their concern
for the spiritual direction of the
school.
Indeed, space and facilities were
a determining factor in choosing a
suitable place for the banquet. And
the Prom center was an answer to
this problem. The Prom is known
as a banquet catering service and
prefers to be called such.
Their service was very good.
The food was good and we had
more than enough room. The
committee feels that the Prom
was as suitable as a hotel, per-haps
even more so for we were
not involved with other groups
as is often the case in a hotel
situation.
The musical group was well-in-formed
about Bethel, both by let-ter
and a fifteen minute interview
just prior to their performance.
The committee assumed that the
Mel-o-Dons' interpretation of jokes
appropriate to this type of occasion
would coincide with our Christian
concept of suitable humor. Per-haps
a few of these jokes were
more inappropriate than we had
wished, but we do not consider
them "suggestive".
This is not the trend in stu-dent-
faculty activities; the quar-tet
was procurred with the inten-tion
of providing an enjoyable
interlude of music between the
meal and the review of the past
year.
We did not ask that they fit into
the Christian "mould" nor do we
feel that Bethel had to fit into
their "mould" to appreciate their
entertainment. We feel that the
difference in spiritual backgrounds
need not have hindered our enjoy-ment
of the musical interlude,
which was the sole purpose of
their presence.
With respect to the concern
over the absence of spiritual
pact in the review, we feel that
the spirituality of the year is a
continuous, underlying factor and,
was emphasized in testimonies by
Dr. Junet Runbeck, Elvin Malcolm,
Eddie Carlson and Dr. Carl Lund;
quist, to mention a few.
It was not intended that the
spiritual be separated from the
social, academic and athletic. As
Christians, should not the spirit-ual
be a basic, unifying factor in
all activities? This is the Bethel
heritage.
In conclusion, we consider Presi-dent
Lundquist's closing remarks
and prayer a very fitting "brief,
positive challenge to the students
and faculty . . ." This was our de-sire,
as it was yours and we feel
it was adequately handled.
Again, thank you for your con-cern.
All-school banquet committee
elit• Week . .
Thursday, May 21 - Friday, May 22
SENIOR EXAMS
Friday, May 22
Honors convocation. 10 a.m. Fieldhouse.
Commencement music festival. 8 p.m.
Fieldhouse.
Saturday, May 23
Baseball. 10:30 a.m. Martin Luther.
Alumni-parent conference. 2:15 p.m. Col-lege
auditorium.
Alumni banquet. 6:30 p.m. Fieldhouse.
Sunday, May 24
Graduate-parent breakfast. 8 a.m. Bodien
dining hall.
Seminary investiture ceremony. 10 a.m.
Seminary chapel.
Baccalaureate. 11 a.m. Fieldhouse.
Commencement. 3 p.m. Fieldhouse.
Reception. 4:30 p.m. Lawn.
Monday, May 25 - Friday, May 29
FINALS WEEK.
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No. 26
Editor-in-Chief June Erickson
Associate Editor Bill Swenson
News Editor J. David Patterson
Feature Editor Barbara Rusche
Sports Editor Mike Rynkiewich
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Photo Editor Debbie Peterson
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Business Manager Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager Bonnie Carlson
Typing Manager Jim Redford
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Arts meet as band members receive their COEVALS after perform-ing
their spring concert. There were 162 people in the audience. Stu-dents
in the band, plus the usherettes, outnumbered the audience. Three
faculty members were there and one college administrator attended,
It was a fine concert.
Mbiti Reminisces, Finds
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by David M. Mbiti
That the 1963-64 school year is
almost over is a fact which is hard
for me to believe. Time seems to
have gone faster this year than
in the previous years, though in
actual fact, it has not.
For me Bethel has been a place
where I have been kept busy in the
best and most constructive sense
of the word. At Bethel I have ap-propriated
the sense of belonging-ness,
not because of what I have
felt I could contribute to the col-lege
family, but because of what I
could and have gained from Bethel.
Indeed this has been a reward-ing
experience in every realm of
my being. On the academic side,
Bethel, as a Christian college
provides ample room for critical,
independent and reflective think-ing
which I feel is an important
tool for Christian maturity, if
done in a constructive manner,
of course.
I have personally benefited
greatly not only from classroom
situations but also from informal
discussions, either with professors
or with fellow students. This is a
practice which is almost traditional
at Bethel and more of which I wish
to see next year.
Socially, and for the first time
in my four years of study in A-merica,
I have enjoyed mixing with
the entire college family without
any repulsive feelings either with-in
me or within the group.
Spiritually, I have obtained
blessings which are beyond mea-sure
from the many chapel
speakers we have had in the year
and especially our school presi-dent.
Oh how I wish he could do
more chapel speaking!
I do thank the Lord for Bethel
and for her contribution in the
contemporary world.
Thanks Students!
Have a good summer
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by Phil Larson
Plato was right. If you let the
majority make the decisions,
chances are they'll botch things up.
Bethel's student body proves this
at virtually every on-campus con-cert.
The majority decides that the
event is not worth attending, thus
displaying their obvious inability to
make right choices for themselves,
Fie on all you cultural barbarians
who didn't attend the band concert
last Saturday night!
This year's band probably has
more competent musicians hold-ing
down first and second chairs
than any previous year at Bethel.
As a result, Friday night's per-formances
produced a minimum
of clarinet screeches, saxaphone
glissandos, trumpet blops or
trombone fuzz.
Its sound was generally brilliant
and full, with only occasional sur-face
noises and sags in pitch from
the woodwinds. Vivian Walker,
trombone and Tim Olson, bari-tone,
led the band's most orches-tral-
sounding selections.
Charles Erickson's direction help-ed
the band to achieve coherence
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
and drive in several stadium-stomping
marches and in a con-temporary
"Concerto Grosso" by
J. J. Morrissey.
In the latter, the performance
of David Wedeking, Kermit
Grenz and Miss Walker probably
exceeded the musicianship of
the manuscript in the various
brass fanfares and interpolated
solo passages.
V. F. Safranek's "Atlantis" was
simple, optimistic and unpreten-tious.
Wedeking and Olson's long
solo lines were appropriately fluid
and relaxed. Even though the con-tinent
"Atlantis" sank into the sea
during the last movement, the
feeling remained as the composer
intended: bombastic, yet playful,
like a clumsy but happy giant
stumbling over the hills.
Peter Mennin's showpiece, "Can-zona,"
was the only genuinely con-temporary
number of the evening.
Despite a few disjunct and scat-tered
attacks, the band superceded
their practice performances in
charging through a spectacular
piece with the best interpretation
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heard from an amateur wind en-semble.
Kermit Grenz was stormed
with flattery after the concert
for his direction of the first
movement of Schubert's "Unfin-ished
Symphony." Grenz gave
the band an energetic and easy-to-
follow beat, resulting in a
solid and highly unified sound.
Eminent philosopher-king Gerald,
Healy waxed eloquent as emcee
with Tennyson's "Ulysses," and
brought tears of profound ectasy
with a poem by the beloved Dr.
Suess.
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Observer Looks to Plato for Answer
To Question of Concert Attendance
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by Mike Rynkiewich
Thus ends another year of sports at Bethel. There are still two
baseball games to be played, but cross country, football, basketball,
wrestling, tennis, golf and track are over for the year 1963-64.
The Pioneer conference's first year has been dominated by Bethel
teams. In the fall Royals took the conference football championship with
a 2-0 conference record and a 6-2 season record. Winter brought basket-ball
and wrestling.
A 5-1 conference record gave the hoopers the title. In wrestling,
Morris took first, Bethel second. Then came spring and a conference
championship in track. Tennis took a second place and golf a third. The
baseball team will likely take another conference championship.
The year has seen more improvement and the best results of any
year in Bethel's history. Yet, this is not a peak year in sports. The
football team loses six seniors, basketball loses two, track one and
baseball and wrestling none. This is not a great loss. This was a building
year.
Our expanding athletic program and winning seasons are drawing
higher caliber high school athletes to Bethel. Competition for starting
positions on the teams will get tougher resulting in stronger teams.
Considering the great number of returning lettermen and the goad crop
of high school athletes which is expected, next year's seasons should
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Golfers Finish
Season Third
by Rich Lawrence
Royal golfers traveled to Austin,
Tuesday, where they participated
in a three-way meet with Austin
and Mason City of Iowa. Faced
with real tough competition, they
took third place.
Austin finished in front with
a comfortable margin and
Mason City topped Bethel by a
narrow margin. The five golfers
playing were Dean Gustafson,
Lindy Nelson, Jerry Oas, Phil Lin-den
and Dave Palermo.
Saturday the Royals competed in
the Pioneer conference meet. The
University of Minnesota, Morris,
triumphed, followed by Northland,
Bethel and Northwestern. Gustaf-son,
Bill Carlson, Linden and Gene
Weborg made up the Bethel four-some.
They whipped Concordia again
in a dual meet before losing the
triangular meet at Austin, ending
the season in third place in the
conference standings.
by Ron Harris
At the Pioneer conference track
meet Saturday Bethel emerged the
victor with an outstanding point
total of 1091/2. Northland followed
with 46 points, Morris and North-western
in succession.
Twelve first places were copped
by Bethel as Fred Purcell, Bob
MacDonald and Jim Peterson cap-tured
double wins.
Purcell ran away with the mile
with a time of 4:40.2 and came
back later to capture the 880
with a time of 2:04.6. Dave Nor-man
and Dale Rogers, backed up
Purcell in the mile, took second
and third respectively. Norman
Wednesday, May 20, 1964
and Edgar Peterman mopped up
second and third in the 880.
MacDonald won the hop-step-jump
with a leap of 39' 6 3A" as
Peterman and Ron Bergman once
again swept the remaining places.
MacDonald also won the broad
jump with a jump of 20' 1 1/2" as
Peterman and Tim Williams took
second and third respectively.
Peterson clicked off the 440 in
a fast time of 51.8. Williams took
second. Peterson also clipped the
clock at 23 seconds flat to with the
220 dash. Don Land placed fourth.
Williams, who has shown re-markable
improvement this year,
copped the high jump with a re-cord
leap of 5' 10". This is the
third time Williams has broken
his own school record. He later
came back to break his own re-cord
in the 330 yd. hurdles while
placing second. Rich Lawrence
and Dave Bjorklund placed third
and fourth.
In the pole vault, Bergman was
again the victor, this time eclipsing
his own school record of 11' 8" by
vaulting 12' 1/2". Bjorklund placed
third with a vault of 10' 6" and
Peterman fourth with 10' 3".
Jack Buss and Stan Miller took
first and second in the shot put
with heaves of 40' 11 1/2" and 39'
61/2". Buss also took third in the
discus with a whirl of 109'.
Lawrence and Land placed
third and fourth in the 100 yd.
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dash with times of 10.6 and 10.9.
The two mile run was won by
Rogers in 10:34.6 minutes as
Peterman and Mike Rynkiewich
took second and fourth.
Completing the day's events were
the victories in the mile relay and
sprint medley relay. The mile team
composed of Williams, Land, Law-rence
and Peterson broke the tape
at 3:41.6. Purcell, MacDonald,
Bjorklund and Norman combined
in the sprint medley for an easy
3:52.1 win.
by Denny Port
Bethel moved near its fourth
Pioneer conference title with three
victories in four baseball outings
last week. On Wednesday the Roy-als
were away at Austin where
they split a twin bill. On Saturday
Bethel faced Bethany at home and
won a pair.
In Wednesday's first game Bethel
was shut out for the first time this
season, as Jerry Moulton lost a
tough 3-hitter, 2-0. Only captain
Dave Buck and Gene Brunzell got
base hits for Bethel; Buck a double
in the sixth and Brunzell a single
in the seventh. Austin scored the
only run needed in the first on
two hits.
On Saturday Bethel matched
an earlier feat by whipping Beth-
Ron Bergman breaks his own
old record in the pole vault. When.
freshman Bergman came the re-cord
was 10'5". After breaking his
record several times, he went 12'
1/2" in the conference meet. Edgar
Peterman and Dave Bjorklund also
placed in this event.
any Jr. college in a twin bill at
Macalester's north field. The
first game was a sparkling 2-
hitter by sophomore Moulton.
Bethel, known for the big inning
all season, came up with 5 runs in
the first inning of the second en-counter.
Dickau's single and Brun-zell's
double were the only Bethel
hits, but Austin, Nolin and John-son
all reached base on Bethany
errors and Gehrke walked.
In the second after Austin sin-gled,
Dickau flew out, but Buck
reached first on an error. Gehrke
flew out, for what should have
been the third out and Brunzell
singled in Austin and Buck. Aus-tin
went the distance for the
Royals with a fine 5-hit perform-ance.
Austin and Brunzell led
Bethel with two hits each.
The victories gave Bethel a 12-2
league leading record with one
week of action remaining. Dickau
leads Bethel hitters in the league
with a .357 average. Austin is close
behind at .341.
Royals Capture
Doubles Laurels
Gene Peterson and Oluf Kong-shaug
teamed up to capture the
doubles championship and lead the
Royals to a second place finish in
the Pioneer conference tennis
tournament.
Ed Carlson lost his opening
match 6-2, 6-0 to John Blasingame
of the University of Minnesota,
Morris. Blasingame went on to win
the singles championship.
George Palke lost his opening
match 6-4, 8-6 to Rick Erickson of
Morris. Palke whipped Carlson
8-6, 8-6 in the finals of consolation
singles play.
Morris captured the Pioneer con-ference
tournament with 25 points.
Bethel finished second with 16 fol-lowed
by Northland with 15 points
and Northwestern with 2 points.
Last Wednesday the Royals suf-fered
their second straight loss as
Austin handed them a 6-3 defeat.
Peterson, who extended his singles
victories to seven straight and Paul
Wicklund were the only singles
victories while Kongshaug and
Roger Kingsley won the only dou-bles
match.
Bethel finished the 1964 season
with a 4-3 record. With captain Ed
Carlson the only graduating net-man,
the Royals can look forward
to a promising 1965 season.
Trackmen Sweep Conference,
Garner Twelve First Places
Royals Tumble Bethany,
Later Split With Austin